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dogrel

dogrel is the obsolete form of doggerel.

Meaning of doggerel

Noun

doggerel (countable and uncountable, plural doggerels)

  1. A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
    • Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).1894, George du Maurier, “Part Sixth”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 302
  2. (broadly) Any writing of crude composition.
    • It is very rare to find good, personal analysis of events that does not degenerate into chest-beating, pettiness, pomposity, or political doggeral ^([sic]).1977 December 17, Andrew R. Weiss, “Kudos For Cagan”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 4

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Forms of dogrel

pluraldogrels

Questions about dogrel

What is dogrel the obsolete form of?
Dogrel is the obsolete form of doggerel.

Words near dogrel in the dictionary

  1. dogproofing
  2. dogproofs
  3. Dogra
  4. dograma
  5. Dogras
  6. dogrel
  7. dogrels
  8. Dogri
  9. Dogrib
  10. Dogribbed
  11. Dogribs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogrel (page history and authors); doggerel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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